St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-01-23

part of 1t was Donnely'S visit to Washing
ton in the spring of 1885, soon after Ceye-
lands Inauguration. He brought with him
his folio of Shakespeare and charmed lit
erary people of the capital with his in
genious theory of cipher inserted by Bacon
in the plays. He was invited to lecture
upon this subject, and Miss Cleveland asked
him to pay her the honor of calling at the
White house to explain it to her. On the
street people passing him would stop and
point him out to their friends as the author
of ''Ragna rok" and Atlantis" and now
of the marvellous BacOnian cipher Mean
time Mr. Donnelly was making splendid
Roadway with his candidacy. Mr.. Lamar
quick to appreciate bright men, swore in
his soft, slow way that he would appoint
Donnelly: ''All sheol can't pull me away
from him." he said to his old pupil
and companion in arms, Dan Man
ming, who was Donnelly's cham
pion in his contest against Washburn.
but by and by Sachem Kelly and Chief
Doran began to get in their delicate whacks
on Mr.. Donnelly's devoted head. Gradually
the bright chances vanished. Not the least
in the lists OF Donnelly's foes was Maj.
Strait. whom the sage of Nininger had so
nearly laid out in the congressional fight
the fall before. In time it became very
clear that, as Strait openly said, Donnelly
could never be surveyor general. His tight
had become ineXtlfcably mixed up with the
contest for the marshalship and AIr. Don
nelly, having pursued
DONNYBROoK TACTICS
had for most vengefui and bitter foe W.
NJ. Campbell. All this time Norrish was
getting in his Endorsements. The first
came from Tilden people in New York.
Mr.. Tilden himself wrote a very strong let
ter for him, as certainly he ought TO have
done, inasmucn as NOrrish had worked like
a Trojan for him in 1876 and was largely in
strumental in carrying the Minnesota dele
CATION for him. Andrew II. Green. Smith
Weed and other Of Tilden's friends wrote
strong letters, but Minnesota backing was
especially strong. Hundreds of letters
came from Goodhue. Rice Dakota. Henne-
pin, Ramsey and Washington counties.
1.-The people of Minnesota" said Mr.. Nor
IRISH to-day, have secured me this office
and [ am truly grateful. IL is
true | had the Endorsement of Mr.. Tilden.
but | would rather have had it with
the Endorsement of the people OF Minnesota
than to have had it merely by the backing
of the fiIden influence. Mr.. NOrliSh came
into Washington Monday morning Oh his
way 10 New York and had no idea that he
was to be appointed, or that he had been, unit!
he met the GLOBE correspondent two hours
after his name had been sent to the senate.
Minnesota gets self-made man for sur
VeYor general i'll Mr.. Norrish. He was
born in Deyonshire, England; came to this
country in an emigrant ship and went to
Batavia, n. Y. on an emigrant train; he
staid there from 1852 to 1855 and went to
Minnesota and settled at Hastings in 1858.
He has been a prominent dry goods mer
chant for twenty-five years. He was i'll
the legislature in 1876 and 1881. He is a
great friend of Senator Sabin, with whom
he came in close contact as one of the
board of prison inspectors. In 1876 Norrish
was a delegate to the Cincinnati conVeE-
ton and worked for the nomination of
Tilden. He was Cleveland man in 1884
and in the spring before Cleyeland'S
nomination went to New York to
consult Mr.. Tilden in regard to the
nomination that year with the result that
he went home and worked for Cleveland.
Mr.. Norrish is recognized as a political
power in Minnesota. and, it is said, 2. II.
Kelly relies upon his advice oftener than on
that of any other Democrat i'll the state.